The Impacts of Organizational Justice on Educators' Association Participation: The Mediator Role of Deliberative Belief

• In Event: 35.083 - Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: 35.083-3 - Organizing for Improvement

Abstract

Guided by social exchange theory and deliberative participatory democracy framework, the authors investigated whether deliberative beliefs, including normative and personal aspects, mediate the relationship between distributive, procedure, interactive organizational justice and intention of professional association participation .Self-report measures of the organizational justice, deliberative belief and intention of participation were obtained from 789 early childhood educators in Taiwan. Structural equation modeling was used for an analysis of the proposed model. According to results of the study, there is a relationship between organizational justice and intention of participation, and significant fully mediation effect was found for deliberative beliefs between organizational justice and participation. These findings were discussed with respect to improvement of professional association participation and to applications of deliberative pedagogy.

Authors

• Chun-Wen Lin, National PingTung University of Science and Technology

• Wen-Yan Chen, National Chi Nan University